AUGUST 30, 2018


NEWS AND VIEWS


THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES LIVES ON

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-open-accused-sexism-after-alize-cornet-penalized-for-taking-off-shirt-while-federer-djokovic-sit-shirtless/
By CHRISTINA CAPATIDES CBS NEWS August 29, 2018, 1:49 PM
U.S. Open accused of sexism after Alizé Cornet penalized for taking off her shirt while male players sit shirtless

The U.S. Open is feeling the heat today — not just because this year's tournament has been dogged by crushing humidity and dangerous temperatures near 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but because of a code violation many are flagging as sexist.

The incident in question occurred between the second and third sets of a women's match on Tuesday. French player Alizé Cornet, who is ranked 31st in the world among professional female players, was returning to the court after a 10-minute heat break in the locker room, when she realized that the fresh shirt she had just changed into was on backwards. Cornet quickly turned away from the cameras, pulled the shirt over her head (while her black sports bra remained in place) and righted the situation. It reportedly took less than 15 seconds.

Seems simple enough, right? Wrong.

When Cornet turned back toward Center Court, the chair umpire shocked her — and scores of stunned fans — by serving her up with a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct. "Not fair. Not right," one outraged fan said on Twitter. "The double standard here is DEAFENING," another wrote.

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Alissa Warren
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Busted for code violation 🙄 #alizecornet took 10 sec to turn top right way but #novacdjokovic can sit for minutes half-naked. Same comp. Days after @serenawilliams slammed for disrespecting tennis because she wore a #catsuit. Not fair. Not right. Tell your daughters 🙌

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The double standard here is DEAFENING #AlizeCornet #USOpen

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Female player punished for taking her top off during US Open, sparking sexism row


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The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rules stipulate that female players are not permitted to change their clothing while on the court, but must instead do so in a dressing room. Male players, on the other hand, regularly pull their shirts off and switch them on the court when changing ends.

And in the oppressive heat at Arthur Ashe Stadium this week, many prominent male players, like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, even took it a step further by sitting on the sidelines without their shirts on for prolonged periods of time.

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia takes a break from the heat while playing against Marton Fucsovics of Hungary during their Day 2 2018 US Open Men's Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Aug. 28, 2018. GETTY

This is just the latest example of gender inequalities in professional sports, coming almost immediately on the heels of the controversy over Serena Williams' form-fitting catsuit, which she said she wore for medical reasons. And now, many tennis fans are hoping it'll serve as a sort of "break point" for the sport's governing body.

Judy Murray, mother of the former top male player in the world, Andy Murray, was even among those who took to Twitter in outrage.


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Alize Cornet came back to court after 10 minute heat break. Had her fresh shirt on back to front. Changed at back of court. Got a code violation. Unsportsmanlike conduct..... 😳
But the men can change shirts on court.

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Cornet( info - @nicklester , @BenRothenberg,@ymanojkumar)(🎥Eurosport)


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In fact, the sport's Extreme Heat Policy itself borders on sexism. The 10-minute break offered between the third and fourth sets of a match in instances of extreme heat is generally only extended to women. This week, however, the temperatures in Flushing Meadows, New York, were so extreme that officials made an exception.

"Upon the recommendation of the U.S. Open medical team, the Extreme Heat Policy will be implemented immediately for men's matches," the USTA said in a statement.

The very existence of the discrepancy, however, seems to imply that female players are somehow more fragile than their male counterparts.

And separate from the sexism on the books is the issue of double standards in the enforcement of discipline after players are cited for unseemly conduct. That problem seems to exist along gendered lines in more sports than just tennis.

Take the issue of trash talking, for example. In men's sports, it is rampant, expected and almost glorified. In fact, for some male athletes like Conor McGregor and Draymond Green, it's become an intregal part of their persona. But when Hope Solo called the Swedish national team "a bunch of cowards" after a heated Women's World Cup match, however, she was banned from U.S. soccer.

Male athletes have done far worse and are still allowed to return. Numerous NFL players, like Adrian Peterson, Michael Vick and Ray Lewis, have weathered controversies over child abuse, dog fighting and even a murder case, returning to multi-million dollar contracts and, in the case of Lewis, being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader recently received a warm ovation from fans when he returned to the mound after his years-old racist and homophobic tweets surfaced during the All-Star Game. Floyd Mayweather Jr. remains the highest paid athlete in the world, cashing in hundreds of millions of dollars for a single fight, despite repeated domestic abuse charges.

In the case of Alizé Cornet, the WTA has now responded with a statement standing up for the player. "The code violation that USTA handed to Alize Cornet during her first round match at the U.S. Open was unfair and it was not based on a WTA rule, as the WTA has no rule against a change of attire on court. The WTA has always been and always will be a pioneer for women and women's sports. This code violation came under the Grand Slam rules and we are pleased to see the USTA has now changed this policy. Alize did nothing wrong," the group said.

The USTA, too, has now released a statement in the hopes of clarifying the situation.

"All players can change their shirts while sitting in the player chair. This is not considered a code violation," it reads.

"We regret that a code violation was assessed to Miss Cornet yesterday. We have clarified the policy to ensure this will not happen moving forward. Fortunately, she was only assessed a warning with no further penalty or fine.

"Female players, if they choose, may also change their shirts in a more private location close to the court, when available."


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THIS REPORT ON THE FEARS AMONG THE GERMANS TOWARD IMMIGRANTS, WHOSE VERY PRESENCE CAUSES FEAR AND AN INCREASED PERCEPTION OF CRIME, IS JUST LIKE WHAT WE HAVE IN THE USA. THE HUMAN CREATURE, IN MANY CASES AT ANY RATE, IS GIVEN TO DEMONIZATION AND PURPOSEFUL EXCLUSION OF "OUTSIDERS." THIS HAPPENS NOT ONLY ON THE GRAND SCALE, BUT IN HOMES AS FAMILY MEMBERS FAIL TO FEEL “SECURE” AND “APPRECIATED” ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS THE URGE TO REACT WITH JEALOUSY OR TO SOME DEGREE, VIOLENCE. IN TIMES OF STRESS AS WE HAVE TODAY, THE TRIBALISM INCREASES, SO THE VIOLENCE DOES ALSO.

THIS REPORT SHOWS THAT THE ACTUAL PERCENTAGES OF CRIME NOW ARE LOWER THAN LAST YEAR AND THAT ANTISEMITISM IS UP. THIS IS A WORLDWIDE SET OF EVENTS, AT LEAST IN THE USA AND EUROPE. THE EFFORT TO TRACE ANTISEMITISM AND HATRED OF IMMIGRANTS TO ANYTHING RATIONAL IS USELESS. IT'S A TRIBALISTIC REACTION ONLY. IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT HOW HORRIBLE THE OUTSIDER IS, BUT ABOUT HOW ANGRY AND DISENFRANCHISED THE INGROUP MEMBERS FEEL.

THE MORE GROUP CENTERED A PERSON IS, THE MORE CONFORMING THEY WILL BE, AND THEREFORE WILL SEEM VIRTUOUS (NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BEHAVIOR TOWARD OUTSIDERS IS.) WHAT I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE DO IS FIRST, EVALUATE PEOPLE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS RATHER THAN THEIR EXTERNAL FEATURES SUCH AS SKIN COLOR OR BEAUTY OR DISABILITY, AND RESPECT AND VALUE THEM. VERY FEW INDIVIDUALS ARE CRIMINALS, EVEN IF THEY ARE IMMIGRANTS, AND ALL SHOULD BE JUDGED FOR THEIR BEST CHARACTERISTICS FIRST UNLESS THEY HAVE ATTACKED SOMEONE, IN WHICH CASE THERE IS ALWAYS A JAIL AVAILABLE TO CONTAIN THEM.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-crime-rate-migration-antisemitism-horst-seehofer-a8343226.html
Crime rate in Germany at lowest level in 30 years, but antisemitism is on the rise
But almost half of Germans are more fearful of crime than they were a few years ago
Harry Cockburn
Wednesday 9 May 2018 16:11

PHOTOGRAPH -- German Interior minister Horst Seehofer (r) present the German 2017 crime statistics in Berlin ( EPA )

The German crime rate has fallen by five per cent since last year, hitting its lowest rate since 1992.

The new government figures show that 5.76 million crimes were reported in 2017. As a percentage of the population, crime is now at its lowest level for 30 years.

“Germany has become safer,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday, as the figures were released, but he warned “much remains to be done,” as 44 per cent of Germans said they felt less secure in Germany than they did a few years ago.

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The statistics also listed the number of crimes by non-German nationals, which have also significantly declined, falling by 23 per cent since last year, from 950,000 to just over 700,000.

Last month it was reported that the number of migrants in Germany had reached a record high, with 10.6 million people with foreign citizenship living there.

Mr Seehofer acknowledged the trend for increased public wariness in Germany, which has also seen a rise in terrorist incidents.

"There is no reason to sound the all-clear and much remains to be done," he said, adding that the rule of law must be upheld and Germany protected against all forms of extremism and terrorism.

According to Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, Andre Schulz, the head of the Federation of German Police Officers, described the differentiation between German public sentiment and actual safety as "a paradox," adding that the two had no bearing on one another.

Despite the significant overall fall in crime, the figures also revealed a rise in antisemitic attacks, which have gone up by 2.5 per cent with a total of 1,504 incidents in 2017. Mr Seehofer said this was partly attributable to “imported antisemitism”, referring to attacks carried out by foreigners, however, this portion was vastly outweighed by attacks on Jews by far-right German nationals, which accounted for 94 per cent of antisemitic attacks.

The report says that politically motivated crimes fell for the first time in four years, going down by 4.9 per cent and making up 0.7 per cent of all crimes.

However, within this category, the number of incidents motivated by right-wing ideology fell by 12.9 per cent while those connected to the left rose by 3.9 per cent.


The overall numbers of crimes associated with the political right – 20,520 in 2017 – was more than twice the number connected to the left, at 9,752.

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Mr Seehofer said it was “shameful” Germany’s left-wing politicians had not made greater efforts to distance themselves from violence. He called for local authorities to take “decisive action” against “left-wing violent criminals.”

Overall attacks on asylum and refugee shelters fell by 69 per cent to just over 300 incidents. Though the figures reveal a positive downward trend which saw less violence, Mr Seehofer said every reported incident was one too many.



LEVI SANDERS FOR CONGRESS – THIS ARTICLE IS A SIMPLE HIT JOB ON LEVI SANDERS. AS A REPORTER FOR A PAPER AS PRESTIGIOUS AS THE NYT, EMBER SHOULD HAVE BEEN LESS HEAVY-HANDED, AND MORE ENLIGHTENING. SHE SAID NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT HIS VIEWS, EXCEPT TO SAY SEVERAL TIMES THAT HE “SHOUTED” THEM. I AM DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR THAT LEVI HAS “A PICTURE OF HIS FATHER FRONT AND CENTER” ON HIS WEBSITE. THAT ISN’T GOOD SINCE SANDERS MAKES IT A POINT NOT TO PROMOTE HIS FAMILY MEMBERS IN POLITICS. NOT CONTENT WITH THAT, SHE ALSO THROWS IN A SLUR AGAINST THE FATHER, DESCRIBING HIM AS “LOPING ALONG” AFTER HIS SON. IT WASTES MY TIME TO READ CLAPTRAP, WHICH IS WHAT THIS IS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/levi-sanders-new-hampshire.html
Levi Sanders Is Not His Father. He Keeps Telling That to Voters.
By Sydney Ember
Aug. 21, 2018

PHOTOGRAPH -- Levi Sanders delivered his closing statement to a room of voters and volunteers during the forum for Democratic candidates for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st District this month. CreditCreditJohn Tully for The New York Times

LACONIA, N.H. — That Sanders fellow was shouting again.

Earlier in the evening at a campaign forum here, he had yelled, unprompted, about Medicare for all. During his introductory statement, he had bellowed about dentures.

Now, as the audience groaned at his attacks on other candidates, he snapped.

“Excuse me! Excuse me!” he thundered. “I’m here to talk, O.K.?”

The moderator threatened to turn his microphone off. And then Levi Sanders — the son of the Vermont senator this neighboring state knows well — shouted some more.

Throughout his campaign for an open congressional seat here, Mr. Sanders has insisted he is his own man.

“I’m not a clone of my father,” he said in a late-night interview after the forum earlier this month. His shirt was rumpled. He looked weary.

But with just weeks to go until his primary in the First District, Mr. Sanders, 49, still cannot avoid comparisons to his father, Bernie Sanders. His father, who won the 2016 presidential primary in this Live Free or Die state by 22 points. His father, whose booming, sometimes bellicose style on the stump seems to have rubbed off on his son.

Like Bernie Sanders, Levi Sanders is fighting — loudly — for single-payer health care, a $15 minimum wage and tuition-free public college. He vilifies corporate PAC money. He has asked backers to contribute $27, the same amount his father had touted during his presidential campaign to prove his support came from small donors. On Levi Sanders’s website? A photo of his father, front and center.

Mr. Sanders’s campaign, for a House seat in a competitive district, has puzzled everyone from the most enthusiastic Bernie supporters to his 10 Democratic opponents, more than a few of whom seem all too eager to dismiss his candidacy. Some people view him as a firebrand, with a quick fuse and a sharp tongue. Others describe him more as a nuisance, who has only gained notice because of his name. Because he lives outside the district, on the other side of this outsider-averse state, he has even been accused of carpetbagging.

Mr. Sanders, who is not a lawyer, has made a career in legal services fighting for the less fortunate. But there is no doubt he is a severe underdog in his primary. He worked for his father’s campaign, but in terms of non-familial political experience, he has none. Nearly a decade ago, he ran for City Council in Claremont, where he lives, and finished seventh in a field of nine.

Oh, and one more thing: His father has not endorsed him.

Bernie Sanders declined to comment for this article. In an interview in May, he snapped at a question about his son before requesting to go off the record.

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Levi Sanders is campaigning on many of the issues his father, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has fought for, but he has not received his father’s endorsement.CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times

“Levi has spent his life in service to low-income and working families, and I am very proud of all that he has done,” he said in a statement earlier this year. “In our family, however, we do not believe in dynastic politics. Levi is running his own campaign in his own way.”

When the senator’s stepdaughter, Carina Driscoll, ran for mayor of Burlington, Vt., this year — a seat he once held — he did not endorse her either. She lost.

The elder Mr. Sanders has four children. Three are from his wife’s previous marriage. Levi Sanders (pronounced LEH-vee) is his only biological child.

The younger Mr. Sanders swears he is not upset by his father’s decision not to endorse him.

“He’s always believed, ever since I was little, that I have to stand up on my own,” he said.

Through the end of June, Mr. Sanders had raised less than $30,000, a truly meager amount compared with nearly every other candidate in the race. His campaign manager, a 2016 Bernie-or-Buster, has managed only one other campaign. His website is turn-of-the-millennium retro. If Mr. Sanders is banking on his name, a brief tour through Portsmouth, on the state’s coast, turned up few voters who were aware he was running.

The district itself carries considerable significance for Democrats this fall.

It is a perennial battleground, with a seat that has alternated between parties — and the same two politicians — for a decade. Though currently held by a Democrat, it went for President Trump by two points in 2016, and Republicans see it as a potential target this fall.

Two Republican candidates are competing for their party’s nomination: Andy Sanborn, a state senator, and Eddie Edwards, a veteran and former police chief who was recently endorsed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer. (The president has not yet weighed in on the race.)

On the Democratic side, the field is crowded and varied. There are the front-runners: Maura Sullivan, a former Marine and ex-official in the Obama administration with national support who moved to the district last year, and Chris Pappas, a New Hampshire Executive Council member who has been endorsed by top local Democrats, including Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

There is the retired trial lawyer, the environmental scientist, the junior politico, the Army veteran, the labor leader, the telegenic businessman and two aw-shucks-we’re-running-because-we-can-ers.

Then there is Levi Sanders.

Mr. Sanders, whose mother is Susan Campbell Mott, his father’s girlfriend at the time, has long been a fixture in his father’s political career, appearing with him from the time he was two years old. There is, it would seem, perhaps no other person as familiar with the Bernie Sanders brand of anti-establishment, populist progressivism.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the younger Mr. Sanders played a role in the effort to humanize the senator. On Halloween in 2015, the press dutifully captured Levi Sanders and his three children — the White Witch, Sonic the Hedgehog and the Abominable Snowman — as their grandfather loped alongside them. The following January, Mr. Sanders introduced his father at a town hall in Wolfeboro.

“The person I’m going to introduce I know just a little, teeny bit, as he’s my father,” he said, leaning into the podium with his father’s wide-armed, two-handed grip.

Image -- The field of Democrats competing in the district is wide and varied.CreditJohn Tully for The New York Times

There are other similarities — in mannerisms, in appearance, in cadence — but the younger Mr. Sanders is quick to brush them off.

“I’m 6 foot two-and-a-half, and he’s six feet!” he said during the post-forum interview.

“I’m a size 14 shoe. He’s an 11 and a half!”

He’s used the lines before (many times).

“I’m a pretty gregarious guy,” he said later. “I think I’m funny.”

So far, he hasn’t made much of an impression on his opponents.

“I don’t know that he brings that much dimensionality to the race,” State Representative Mindi Messmer, the environmental scientist, said in an interview in Portsmouth.

In conversations with voters, many were similarly unaffected.

“Cool,” David McKinniss, 62 and a fan of Bernie Sanders, said when informed the senator’s son was running. “Is it going to be another Kennedy dynasty?”

Mr. Sanders, it should be noted, does have his supporters. Earlier this year, he was endorsed by Representative Ro Khanna of California. The two had been chatting on Twitter, Mr. Khanna said in a recent phone interview, and Mr. Sanders expressed support for some of his positions, including single-payer health care.

After the forum, at a hotel on Lake Winnipesaukee, Mr. Sanders acknowledged that his father’s legacy in New Hampshire helped him “get in the door.”

But he rejected the suggestion that it was hard to get voters to see him as anything other than his father’s son. During his 18-year career in legal services, he has seen people “who are just getting beaten up and crushed by the system.” He said he decided to run for office because “I feel like I’d be a very strong advocate for those folks.’’

“The reality is I am my own person,” he said. “My father didn’t represent people in legal services.”

As the night wore on, it became increasingly clear that Mr. Sanders was also prone to unusual turns of phrase.

When told that he seemed less than relaxed, he replied: “I’m not stiff. I do yoga.”

Asked to define himself, he offered, “I am not a Romulan. I am not a Vulcan.” (“Star Trek!” he cried, when his reference was met with a blank stare.)

He tried again. “I am a sentient being,” he said.

By that point, he was the only candidate left in the dimly lit hotel lobby. He stayed a little longer. Then he got in his car and drove home.

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 24, 2018, on Page A12 of the New York edition with the headline: A Weary Sanders Keeps Telling Voters ‘I’m Not a Clone of My Father’. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe


SO WHO IS THIS TWO TIME SANDERS HATER, SYDNEY EMBER? SHE HAS SPOUTED HOSTILE COMMENTS THAT I’VE SEEN WITHOUT REALLY LOOKING VERY HARD AT THE SENATOR AS WELL. I HAVE SEARCHED HER NAME WITH TRUMP, REPUBLICAN, CONSERVATIVE, LIBERAL, BUT FOUND NO LINK WITH THE RIGHT; HOWEVER SHE HAS APPARENTLY HAD A PRICKLY INTERACTION WITH SANDERS HIMSELF OR HIS VIEWS.

WHATEVER IT IS, IT DEVALUES SOMETHING VERY GOOD – A MAN WHO CARES ABOUT THOSE WHO AREN’T WEALTHY, AND FOLLOWS POLITICAL PRINCIPLES RATHER THAN SEEKING HIS FORTUNE THROUGH PUBLIC OFFICE. AS FOR EMBER, WHAT I DID FIND WAS A SERIES OF COMMENTERS FROM HER TWITTER SITE “MELBOURNECOAL.” OTHERS REFERRED TO HER AS BEING ELITIST AND ATTACKING BERNIE SANDERS IN PARTICULAR. THAT SEEMS LIKELY – HER MOTHER IS A WRITER FOR HUFFINGTON POST. SEE WHAT HER COMMENTERS HAVE TO SAY TO AND ABOUT HER HERE:

https://twitter.com/melbournecoal/status/1002195570872598530?lang=en
Sydney Ember
@melbournecoal

Bernie Sanders is holding live-streamed town halls. They let him get his unfiltered message to voters. They also allow him to evade questions from the press. https://nyti.ms/2LIjXIF


Stephen Sweeney‏

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TROLLING FOR THE ELITES. SHAME ON YOU. Bernie Sanders has and will debate anyone who engages in civil discourse. REPORTERS representing status quo. business as usual politics, is offensive and anti-dialogue. Try this: ask him his view on ANYTHING and see his reply


Ali Best
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Berine sanders is a great person


Crypto Cryptid‏

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Article cites multiple politicians but you saw fit to engage in some Bernie Bashing w/o commenting on the broader issue. To be clear, I'm not a fan of this practice no matter who does it, but if all you took away from it was "time to do a hit on Bernie" you're missing the big pic


Deborah Levy‏

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Like Huckabee answers any questions? Like Trump answers questions!


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The press, aka you, doesnt ask questions in an honest way, you use soundbites to frame people/issues how your bosses want. You’re pretty smart, but not that smart.

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